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Tag: Bing Maps

One of the projects that I’m working on nowadays, required me to batch geocode almost 8,000 addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates, and then display it on a Google map, using Google’s fusion table. All my data lives in an Excel worksheet. I’m not familiar with this world of geocoding, Google Maps API, etc. but I had to find a solution in order to make this process easy.

I thought about the idea of having a macro as part of my excel worksheet, that will connect to Google Maps / Bing maps and will pull data from my worksheet, geocode it using the API and will return the latitude and longitude coordinates.

While researching the web, I found out that someone already thought about it, and created a wonderful tool, based on an Excel worksheet and Bing Maps’ API. It’s called Excel Geocoding Tool.